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“But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel?”
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political jadedness
i hate to see how ugly this election has turned out to be. What started as a bid to instill healthy changes in the governing body of Singapore has become a petty catfight towards the end of the day.
The purpose of having opposing voices is to create that fine line of balance so that both the government and the population could fare well and grow as a nation. The opposition parties started out with the notion of "speaking for the people", "let your voices be made known to them" etc, but how did it became so disappointing in the end? Even after nomination has been filed, all you are capable to do is just to flame the fires and fuel the unhappiness so that you could use it to your advantage? where is the fair play that we are all expecting? Apart from the team of 5 from WP contesting for Aljunied GRC, i'm sorry to say that i have no respect for the rest of the opposing teams.
saying " despite their attempts to tempt you over the years" is not going to help you. Election campaigns are not used as baits to lure people to vote for you. This is for the good of the nation. You garnered enough votes to be the few opposing voices in parliament for the last 20 years because your people supported you, but i don't see it as a case of "your voters are not tempted by the contestants every 5 years". They voted for you because they trusted you. Temptation shouldnt even come into play here. Do give the voters as well as you yourself some level of respect?
saying "if the elections dept do not release their explanations within the nxt 1 hour, there might not be a need for elections at all" does not help either. Now that nominations has been said and done, you are requested to give a short 1 min speech to encourage your voters and to declare the start of all the campaigning efforts. Instead of all these, what i heard was a whole 1 min of how you feel unjustified about the fact that your objection was overruled and how you are gonna demand for justice to be served IN FRONT OF ALL THE SUPPORTERS, both PAP and non-PAP? i dun think that was a gracious act. What i feel was an act to fuel the flames and stir up this sense of hostility among the supporters. Fair play dude, i'm quite sure you're old enough to comprehend that? i don't think it makes you look any nicer now that you're eagerly trying to see your opponents get disqualified. no matter how much disdain you have for your opponents, keep it among yourselves. you don't have to make everyone as agitated as you are so as to stir up any sense of negativity against your opponents.
and saying things like voting them in to see a better parliament/brand new tomorrow instead of just PAP isnt gracious either. we, or at least me, are looking out for possible candidates who can represent us in the government to create progress in the nation, not to see you get into the government so that it's not all white. If you are trying to win over voters, i dun find this kind of statements particularly enticing. yes we need changes, but the intentions of the elections is not to upset the current governing body so that you can get in! and if you're marketing yourself like this, i think it's warped. Shouldnt all these be for the people instead?
I dun like how people are taking this chance to bring down PAP just because they find it unfair. There are flaws, but which government doesnt have flaws? To be frank, we owe a major part of the progress of Singapore over the last few decades to them. If not for them, would we even be standing here today? What i want to say is, we shouldnt forget what they have done for us all these years. I think it says a lot, and it's sad to see how people are against them despite them bringing us forward as a nation thus far. We are often too micro-focusing on details like "how come the government is all from the same party", "how unfair this and that" etc, but this is not the point in question here. There has also been cases where the government could have done better, and i definitely welcome worthy opposition parties like WP to instill healthy changes in the parliamentary body. but please, don't make things so ugly when the GE is supposed to be of a good notion. Be as gracious as the team of 5 contesting for Aljunied GRC when you're up against your opponent for a good fight. By fanning the displeasure of people against the ruling party jus isnt what i expected and definitely not what we would want to see. Do give yourself due respect before commanding that from your voters. Voters have their own judging criteria to stand by and it's definitely not yours to say what's what. Think carefully before we start to judge and eventually vote.
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political jadedness
i hate to see how ugly this election has turned out to be. What started as a bid to instill healthy changes in the governing body of Singapore has become a petty catfight towards the end of the day.
The purpose of having opposing voices is to create that fine line of balance so that both the government and the population could fare well and grow as a nation. The opposition parties started out with the notion of "speaking for the people", "let your voices be made known to them" etc, but how did it became so disappointing in the end? Even after nomination has been filed, all you are capable to do is just to flame the fires and fuel the unhappiness so that you could use it to your advantage? where is the fair play that we are all expecting? Apart from the team of 5 from WP contesting for Aljunied GRC, i'm sorry to say that i have no respect for the rest of the opposing teams.
saying " despite their attempts to tempt you over the years" is not going to help you. Election campaigns are not used as baits to lure people to vote for you. This is for the good of the nation. You garnered enough votes to be the few opposing voices in parliament for the last 20 years because your people supported you, but i don't see it as a case of "your voters are not tempted by the contestants every 5 years". They voted for you because they trusted you. Temptation shouldnt even come into play here. Do give the voters as well as you yourself some level of respect?
saying "if the elections dept do not release their explanations within the nxt 1 hour, there might not be a need for elections at all" does not help either. Now that nominations has been said and done, you are requested to give a short 1 min speech to encourage your voters and to declare the start of all the campaigning efforts. Instead of all these, what i heard was a whole 1 min of how you feel unjustified about the fact that your objection was overruled and how you are gonna demand for justice to be served IN FRONT OF ALL THE SUPPORTERS, both PAP and non-PAP? i dun think that was a gracious act. What i feel was an act to fuel the flames and stir up this sense of hostility among the supporters. Fair play dude, i'm quite sure you're old enough to comprehend that? i don't think it makes you look any nicer now that you're eagerly trying to see your opponents get disqualified. no matter how much disdain you have for your opponents, keep it among yourselves. you don't have to make everyone as agitated as you are so as to stir up any sense of negativity against your opponents.
and saying things like voting them in to see a better parliament/brand new tomorrow instead of just PAP isnt gracious either. we, or at least me, are looking out for possible candidates who can represent us in the government to create progress in the nation, not to see you get into the government so that it's not all white. If you are trying to win over voters, i dun find this kind of statements particularly enticing. yes we need changes, but the intentions of the elections is not to upset the current governing body so that you can get in! and if you're marketing yourself like this, i think it's warped. Shouldnt all these be for the people instead?
I dun like how people are taking this chance to bring down PAP just because they find it unfair. There are flaws, but which government doesnt have flaws? To be frank, we owe a major part of the progress of Singapore over the last few decades to them. If not for them, would we even be standing here today? What i want to say is, we shouldnt forget what they have done for us all these years. I think it says a lot, and it's sad to see how people are against them despite them bringing us forward as a nation thus far. We are often too micro-focusing on details like "how come the government is all from the same party", "how unfair this and that" etc, but this is not the point in question here. There has also been cases where the government could have done better, and i definitely welcome worthy opposition parties like WP to instill healthy changes in the parliamentary body. but please, don't make things so ugly when the GE is supposed to be of a good notion. Be as gracious as the team of 5 contesting for Aljunied GRC when you're up against your opponent for a good fight. By fanning the displeasure of people against the ruling party jus isnt what i expected and definitely not what we would want to see. Do give yourself due respect before commanding that from your voters. Voters have their own judging criteria to stand by and it's definitely not yours to say what's what. Think carefully before we start to judge and eventually vote.
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